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What does an achondroplasia karyotype look like?

April 26, 2017achondroplasia karyotype look

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What does an achondroplasia karyotype look like?

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achondroplasia also know as dwarfism Achondroplasia is a (dominant) mutation in a collagen gene. It is not caused by a trisomy or monosomy event (nondisjunction), so the karyotype of an achondroplasiac dwarf is exactly the same as a “normal” human.